by Vani Malik | Feb 11, 2026 | Leadership & Culture
Why Holding On Too Tight Is Slowing Your Business Down Last Tuesday, a founder told me something that made me laugh, not because it was funny, rather because it was painfully familiar. She said, “I just need two uninterrupted days to think about strategy. That’s all....
by Vani Malik | Feb 5, 2026 | Leadership & Culture
Why your systems quietly shape your culture, your leadership and you “We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.” – Winston Churchill Churchill was talking about architecture, but he may as well have been talking about business. After two decades of...
by Vani Malik | Jan 27, 2026 | Business Clarity & Transformation, Leadership & Culture
“Not everything that matters moves fast. Some things grow deep before they grow loud.” Modern business worships speed. Fast decisions. Fast growth. Fast scaling. Fast results. We celebrate velocity as if it were wisdom. We reward decisiveness even when it’s detached...
by Vani Malik | Jan 18, 2026 | Leadership & Culture, Systems & Customer Success
“Your business doesn’t slow down because people aren’t working hard enough.It slows down because everything still has to go through you.” This is one of the hardest truths for founders to hear and one of the most common realities I see behind the scenes. Not because...
by Vani Malik | Jan 6, 2026 | Business Clarity & Transformation, Leadership & Culture
The Silent Threat to Small Businesses – Operational Debt “The future doesn’t arrive with a warning sign. It shows up quietly through small signals we choose to ignore.” If you run a small business today, you’re probably feeling it already. Work feels faster,...
by Vani Malik | Jan 1, 2026 | Leadership & Culture
“Company culture is what happens when no one’s watching, not what’s printed on the wall.” We’ve all seen the annual “Culture Refresh.” It usually starts with a glossy email from the CEO, followed by branded lanyards and a set of new, alliterative values...
